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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
280 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 December 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
German mechanical engineering company Kuka will hire 280 persons at Sibiu plant (Sibiu County) by the end of 2019. The company is planning to expand its site area with 10,000 squared metres of new productions halls.
Kuka entered the Romanian market in 2011 and has 280 employees at its site in Sibiu.
The headquarters of the production and development site are in Augsburg, and the Group is internationally represented with about 100 companies.
Sources
15 December 2017: Ziarul Financiar
15 December 2017: Profit.ro
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Kuka Systems, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 92848, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92848.
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